The No. 1-ranked Ashland University women's soccer team ended its road trip in style on Saturday (Sept. 23) afternoon, taking a 6-0 decision at Kentucky Wesleyan.
With the Eagles' sixth clean sheet of the 2023 season, they improve to 6-0-1 overall and 2-0-1 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The Panthers are 0-6, 0-4.
Ashland has yielded just one goal in the first seven games of the season – a first in program history. The six Eagle goals on Saturday are the most since a 6-1 home win over Malone on Oct. 13, 2022.
NOTABLES
- Not only did freshman forward Sydney Polen score her first collegiate goal in the 25th minute, she recorded her first collegiate brace with her second tally in the 28th minute. Sophomore forward Dani Hicks had the assist on the first goal, her second of the season, and junior midfielder Merrik Mihalek had the helper on the second, also her second.
- In the 52nd minute, senior forward Allison King scored her second goal of 2023, then Hicks potted her fourth goal of the campaign in the 57th minute on a feed from junior forward McKinley Mendenhall. Mendenhall's second assist of the season gives her 20 as an Eagle – tying her with Ursula Staneff for sixth place on the program's all-time list.
- The Eagles' scoring was rounded out by sophomore midfielder Emily Pate's first goal of the season in the 65th minute, then senior midfielder Vanessa Menchofer's first goal of the fall in the 85th minute.
- Senior goalkeeper Mackenzie Simon played the first 72:26 of the game, lowering her season goals-against average to 0.15.
- Ashland had 31 of the 32 shots taken on Saturday, and had 11 of the game's 13 corner kicks.
UP NEXT
The Eagles return home for another conference game on Wednesday (Sept. 27) at 3:30 p.m. against Walsh at Ferguson Field.
